Mercedes give their initial reaction to George Russell's Belgian GP disqualification, Lewis Larkam reports from Spa.
After fuel was drained out of Russell’s car and it was weighed again on the FIA scales, his W15 was found to be 1.5kg below the minimum weight requested in TR article 4.1.“A 1-2 would have been a great result going into the summer break. It wouldn’t go any better. The positive, the very positive we can take from this race is we had two cars that were the benchmark in this race, with two different strategies.
“We have to learn from that, and as a team, given there are more positives to take, for George, but that’s a massive blow for a driver when his childhood dream is to winning these races, then to be told it’s taken away. But he's going to win many more.” Hamilton’s victory means he now has two wins in three races, having waited 945 days to end his drought at the British Grand Prix earlier this month.
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